islamic militants threaten to carry out more terror attacks in retaliation for the french campaign in mali accusing parish of the crease a. lead human coalition government failed an important test just months ahead of the national column entry both. christian democrats lose ground to the social democrats opposition in regional elections. prepares for its own parliamentary poll on choose day we report on why many in the country are growing increasingly frustrated with the policies of the party to win the vote.

they could to have a company you're watching live from moscow. now the islamic terrorist cell allegedly responsible for the deadly siege in algeria says france is carrying out a crusader campaign in the region thirty eight hostages were killed after militants captured a remote gas plant in retaliation for the ongoing french intervention in neighboring mali these armies claimed they wanted to negotiate the release of their captives but the offer was turned down with the algerian military deciding to storm the facility causing a bloodbath more terror attacks have now been promised unless france ends its campaign in west africa some of the hostage takers were militants from libya where paris helped islamised topple colonel gadhafi who had warned of an impending al qaeda surge in the region as police reports which are very very. you want to

piece you wanted freedom you wanted economic progress france great britain europe will always stand by the libyan people of course. but a regional crisis probably wasn't what mischief's sarkozy anticipated when he was spearheading the military operation to topple moammar gadhafi although the former french president current say that he had been warned personally i play a significant role in establishing peace in those regions of africa should the situation in libya be unstable al-qaeda will establish its rule a lot and will return and libya will be another afghanistan terrorists will flood to europe cut to paris and almost two years later mark is out these words could well be ringing in the areas of need what i saw was the successor francois hollande having just sent troops to mali france's new leader could well be learning that

every action has a reaction. secu so not only did the french intervention in libya not held the democratic process which is what they said they were after but if actively opened up the floodgates for weapons stockpiles and fighters to leave the country and go salt on the border this is a more to mali where the recently deployed french military were reportedly stunned by the technologically advanced weapons that are in the hands of their adversaries nobody seems to think that perhaps organized groups come from somewhere other than mali it seems they came across the nearby libyan border libya is as i say central to all this problem because all the lot of weapons have been produced by the collapse of the darfur region but also by the complete failure to establish any kind of real state you have essentially also crating in different parts of libya and you have across much of this hour a situation where people have arguments where very considerate sense so bribery and

corruption hang on order grabs is common place gadhafi was bitter opponent all right it was ahmed groups whatever his faults and they now have the ability to use the chaos in libya to provide a basis the first effects for immediate hostage crisis in algeria said to be in retaliation for the french offensive in mali has already claimed the lives of dozens of civilians taken captive and i'm frightened of terrorism this is always been a problem for france whether it's iraq or sarkozy up what is it. i'm french i was born here and live here my culture is french my origins are there and i was there is like another country telling me. you know we're scared of anything that threatens us. france's global allies are showing signs of being sucked into the mali conflict british prime minister david cameron has already acknowledged the fact radical insurgency in the region could take decades rather than months and all

this so that france can remedy the knock on effects from its libyan intervention. r t paris. well earlier my colleague in isa now we spoke with the former u.k. ambassador to algeria graham hand he says the killing of several british hostages isn't enough to dissuade london from helping the french intervention the united kingdom will continue to support the french intervention i imagine that the british government will also want to support our friends in algeria in any way that they might ask us to. david cameron has said that the fight against islamic terrorists in north africa could take decades can britain really afford to get involved like they did in afghanistan which i should mention of course started out with george bush saying that we would be in and out. well politicians tend always to say we'll

be in and then we'll be seeing mr cameron knows that this will take time i don't imagine that he is thinking of committing british ground troops to north africa but there's a lot we can do in terms of intelligence technology logistics i think it does have to be done the question really is how can we afford not to. there was the thought that france went in because of possible uranium resources there what is britain's interests that. well i think britain's interest is in having stability on the on the if you like the southern florida flank of nato just across the mediterranean from from western europe the i don't accept these conspiracy theories about minerals i think it's really about knowing that we're we have we have stable neighbors stable neighbors but at the same time britain openly backs rebels who are known to have sort of attachments to al qaeda and other is islamist groups there so

where then is the consistency. sort of what rebel groups of those in syria. yes yes well if i say reading anything it was more of a geo political in terms of security and not resources so where then why yes in syria no in syria in mali well i think it's a different story this is not. an al-qaeda linked islam a stop arising in syria it's ordinary people who want a different life they want to be rid of a tyrant. in charge of them and this will solve itself apparently without any intervention from the outside i think the story in mali is completely different this is foreign intervention by the al-qaeda linked terrorists

themselves this is not honest mali i'm striving to change the government. the political analyst john laughlin says western countries support islamists when it is in that geopolitical interests to dig say. i greatly enjoyed the ambassador's. discomfiture when you put him that question i mean he doesn't have an answer and the western governments do not have an answer to the question of it which is to say why do we support islamic or islamist rebels in syria and yet send troops into crush islam it's rebels in mali there's no way of squaring the circle these are simply double standards for the by the same token why do we support last year the secession of south sudan but we suddenly send in troops to prevent the secession of north mali these are political decision we are taking political decisions on the basis of our political vision and our friends and enemies and that's the reason why

we do one thing in syria and the other thing in mali and as for encouraging stability i mean that really does take the cookie to say that you know we have practically the whole of the middle east including north africa in turmoil we have supported we the west have supported the great uprisings of the arab spring only to find that they the regimes they have produced have an important islamic element these are conundrums which the west has not solved and is not solving it is on the contrary making matters worse german chancellor angela merkel's coalition has suffered a blow ahead of the parliamentary election later the sheer they've been defeated in a key regional vote losing by one seat in lower saxony the disappointing result potentially puts in a million a burnable british and ahead september's general election in which she seeks to win a third term in office artie's peter all of the reports now on the fragile support

for the german leader both at home and abroad. thirteenth setback in local elections that angle merkel's christian democrat party and their coalition partners the free democrats have suffered it's also more importantly the fifth the fifth state government which they've lost to the social democrats since two thousand and nine this vote in lower saxony which is the fourth most populous state in germany it seemed very much as a bellwether of opinion and it was incredibly tight well it was by one seat and what it does mean though even by the smallest of margins the social democrats while they smell blood heading into the general election their candidate for the chancellorship steinbrück said this well this shows that a change of government and power is possible they see here what's interesting when you look at this particular particular local election is the euro zone crisis really didn't come into it this was a local election where people were voting on local issues now it's in that area

where mrs merkel is starting to show some weaknesses as it were and her christian democratic party and their coalition partners but she still has this personal appeal as the leader because of what she's done for the eurozone crisis but of course that isn't mirrored when you look around the rest of europe particularly in countries like greece where we've seen burned in effigy and even compared to adult hitler because the greek people they see angela merkel as the main person behind the austerity that they're having to live through so her popularity of broad personally isn't particularly great when it comes to the eurozone crisis however germans are happy with the way that she's managed this crisis and managed germany's economy throughout it but as i say it's going to come down to whether she can convince the german people that she's the right person to manage german interests at home as well as those abroad whether she can win not third term towards the end

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interviews intriguing stories for you to. try. to find out more visit our big. dog called. out i welcome back now with a general election looming in israel polls predict there will be little change in the makeup of the country's parliament full cost promising the return of prime minister benjamin netanyahu is right wing there could potty all leaving many voters

apathetic and disillusioned. as this report. the countdown has begun but instead of scanning the papers to brush up on who's saying what in the final hours before his way he's head to the polls. is searching for an apartment the twenty eight year old is desperate to move out of his parents' home but times are tough and he blames the government right i'm not going to vote i see who are the candidates and there is no one standing who represents me or who can change the general mood in the country with the recent political jostling that so candidates move from one party to another induced even more pessimism in people like musharraf who have lost trust in israeli politicians the union between bibi netanyahu and his foreign minister avigdor lieberman in cheek beat him in government the return of c.p. leave me for my opposition leader back into the fray just a few months after announcing her time and only frustrated and already election where we public many israelis don't believe that the present politicians of the

parties. have any really new solutions to the big problems facing israel security spirit economic issues. but among all the uncertainty one thing is certain for the disenchanted voters and i also feel like the outcome is pre-determined everyone knows not and you know who is going to win for them or the apathy based on the belief that netanyahu will almost certainly when has led experts to worry about the state of his way to democracy. there are some populations designing the israeli society if you take a certain sort of the truth box presenters that turns out to vote is very high it's above eighty on the other hand when you look at the middle class the youth and the arabs the presenters is around sixty. and those figures only help netanyahu and his allies of course there are parties who are ready to oppose the government's policies one of their merits boasts that a vote for them is

a secure vote against netanyahu and a leadership that will destroy israel first of all are is a lation the war will continue. there will be no solution to the palestinian problem and the economic and social gaps between rich and poor will get much wider and deeper that merits is expected to win only around five percent of the votes in a record field of fifty four parties that are running in these elections netanyahu is parties expected to get only about a quarter of the seats in the parliament but with other political forces being shattered into rival factions this is still going to be enough for him to continue in power the coalition effort on yahoo is expected to build would have a very slim majority but it would still give him the mandate he needs to map out this country's next four years but the paradox of this election is that the candidate city when is not particularly liked by most of the country policy r.t. tel aviv's. well let's look ahead to cheese election in israel with amir oren who

is a senior correspondent columnist for the harris newspaper thank you for joining us firstly could i ask the question like you and we see there you are now based on netanyahu track record and his plans do you think he should stay in the job. well most israelis actually do not think he should stay in the job because proximately three quarters of the voters are not going to vote for him the one quarter or so of the voters will probably give him enough power to form a coalition with other slates other parties but. just said in her report he's not very likable and the problem is the opposition is not unified and there is no other candidate who could attract enough votes to be an attorney oh well you mentioned he isn't particularly popular at the moment but

why are his right his right wing supporters turning their backs on him. well de lay we could party is not really a right wing in israeli terms right now it is right of center and the fact that the has created a sort of a merger with a big believe a month's israel b ten zero which was supported by many israelis of russian expression has turned off some voters and many of liberman's voters has also have also turned away from this party to the right of the could be eternal the reason other party led by mr naftali bennett and he is forty years old quite attractive israeli to be a new generation so he may be. a major partner in the new coalition but

if he is the new partner then netanyahu will probably be on a collision course with the obama administration so it's going to be a very tough month ahead for coalition forming and this may not be the last election campaign we may see here in the coming year we may have a period of unstable well i'm an unstable government and new elections well a major reason it is the state solution israel palestinian conflict that seems to be in a shambles netanyahu wants more settlements how is that affecting his image at home . well i beg to differ it is perhaps in shambles right now because there is no initiative coming from either israel or outside of it however once president obama is just being inaugurated for his second term once he

comes out with a major diplomatic initiative with secretary of state john kerry who is for such an initiative then most of the israeli public may turn against or against his own prime minister if he tries to to appear though such an initiative the silent majority in music once a solution and the only possible the only practical solution is the two state solution so we may yet see within the next year or two some breakthrough towards such a solution well let's stay on that topic because as you know u.s. president obama and the prime minister netanyahu aren't getting along with you now pressing on with more settlements is a very risky thing will throw israel under the bus to use the words of the former republican candidate mitt romney. well as you say

former republican candidate mitt romney on whom. puts his bets india elections in the ten yeah will last as well as romney president obama definitely did not throw israel under the bus president obama if at all is considered pro israeli even though he has entertained a time you know the two are not synonymous netanyahu is not israel he is the current prime minister but his policy because of the the palestinians and because of you the united states the major benefit perhaps the only benefit to israel has this policy is not supported by the majority of israelis so if we are going to see a clash between now and obama then i will not be supported by many people in israel and then again you may see a new elections early elections. all right well let's talk about iran war mongering with iran certainly seems to be used approval ratings for the election but has how

prepared is israel for a real combat with terror on. well netanyahu came to power four years ago. vowing to and iran's quest for nuclear power he failed in that but he was mostly stopped by people from within israel from within the top ranks of the military the intelligence community as well as state president shimon peres this was a very rare coalition of people who see the military campaign against iran as a last resort not as some gamble on on a whim as. is perceived to be doing he cannot even if you win still more if you mean if you wins next week or so when president paris confers the coalition forming duty on him even if he does win that netanyahu will not be able

to say that he want to mend it for a campaign against iran because this was not an issue at all in the complaint iran's nuclear britain i mean thank you very much for your thoughts that was a mere or an a senior correspondent columnist for the haaretz newspaper of will be closely watching the israeli elections all day on cheese day bringing you three coverage as well as an in-depth exploration of the issue is of israel's settlements but with a twist. i'm here with some investors from england. oh here to show you more so by poverty in this area any known jewish. not know. of. the state solution. she is about to. go to all of the.

now barack obama is officially celebrating the start of his second presidential term even as some cain promises from his last four years in the white still ring out additional hollowell to discuss what could change in the next four years in america and everywhere else we are joined by benedict's a former u.s. military policy director thank you for joining us if we could stop. with the question during his speech to washington the washington crowds barack obama did state that enduring will security and lasting. did not require perpetual war if you think that is a sign that the u.s. will slow down or even end its will its operations abroad i think it's least good that he said that and maybe it will have some maybe he means it partly but we haven't seen that over the past four years he's escalated the wars in afghanistan he's escalated the drone attacks around the world so i'm

certainly skeptical it's i never thought republicans would be in those wars possibly now that he's in his second term he will stop and think about things but from what i've seen there's been no real activity towards drawing down our military he had an excuse to do it with the so-called fiscal cliff approach where they were talking about cutting military spending and raising some taxes he negotiated and did not make major cuts to the military so i'm hopeful but still skeptical and you know certainly if we keep having economic struggles here and making more enemies around the world it will be more and more important you know we may be forced to cut our military at a time when we didn't want to. well the president has a five to one i quote promote democracy from asia to africa from the americas

to the middle east that what methods to expect to see and on which countries. you know it's it's almost embarrassing you know as an american i have trouble keeping track of where our troops are these days where were intervening and so for me to try and predict where it's happening not to mention that there are secret operations going on around the world. do we have our troops in over one hundred countries and we must we intervene in the election processes in other places so there's not really any real. activity to do things other than militarily i'm a libertarian the way i'd like to see us affect other country's policies is by setting a good example of how other countries should act i don't want to force democracy or freedom at the point of a gun or airstrikes and i don't want to impose that on other countries we think

that by behaving as we would like others to bait behave towards us and that means not invading their their territories that's how you spread democracy and freedom and you know i said in the right example so i'm actually worried that other countries you know they see how we do things and they may. go you know go towards the opposite of freedom the opposite of democracy well some commentators did coal his address the most progressive speech the us president has ever made and what you make of that assessment. well i think that's fair during his first term he pushed through a very controversial health care plan republicans called it obamacare i think they felt confident that he would be a one term president after pushing something so cut controversial and divisive yet obama very easily won reelection so now he's feeling quite confident he doesn't

have to think about reelection to another term and we're seeing that he's been very he he was tusk during the fiscal cliff negotiations he's been very tough pushing his anti-gun agenda which is a very divisive issue here in the u.s. so i think he feels very comfortable pushing a bold progressive agenda most of it i wouldn't like but there may be a couple of aspects that i would as a libertarian like to see going forward i have no hope on the civil liberties issues he's been terrible all ninety spying on people that he did talk about during his first term pushing forward a more humane immigration agenda as a libertarian and as someone who likes freedom and liberty i think people should have the opportunity to immigrate to countries and also to leave their own countries when things are going well when they when they're under abusive regimes

or governments so i think there is i do have some hope that obama would push forward a more open immigration process and allow some of the people that are here undocumented or illegally right now to allow them a pathway to citizenship and hopefully a pathway that does not involve two years of military service i think that would be terrible if he tries to push something like that possibly republicans would want to stick something like that in there to get it passed but hopefully that won't happen so overall i have a pretty negative outlook for the next four years but possibly a couple days good might come from it. as well look thank you very much for your time we do appreciate your analysis on today's speech thank you that was with benedict a former u.s. military director. that on the way peter lavelle and his guests cross talk whether russia is a lucrative p.